Rinsing-machine.



PATENTBD AUG. 2, 1904.

I. E. PALMER.

RINSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED DEG. 2. 1906.

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PATENTED AUG. 2, 1904.

I. E. PALMER.

RINSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.2,1903.

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I. B. PALMER.

RINSING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED DEO.2,1908.

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Patented August 2, 1904.,

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ISAAC E. PALMER, OF MIDDLETITOWN, CONNECTICUT.

RlNSlNG-MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 766,464, dated August 2, 1904.

Application filed December 2, 1903. Serial No. 183,443. (No model.)

To all whom, it TIMI/Z] concern.-

lie it known that 1, Isaac E. PALMER, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of hliddletmvn, in the county of Middlesex and State of Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Rinsing-h'lachine, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a rinsing-machine, and more particularly to a machine for rinsing yarn or fabric in a rope form, with the object in view of agitating the rope of yarn or fabric while in the bath and alternately permitting it to work loosely over rollers and squeezing it tightly between rollers, while preventing the parts of warp which come in contact with the rollers from becoming unduly stretched.

A practical embodiment of my invention is represented in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a view in side elevation, partly in section, showing the rinsing-machine set up as in use. Fig. 2 is a view, partly in end elevation and partly in section, in the plane of the line A A of Fig. 1 looking toward the left as the sheet is held. Fig. 3 is a view in end elevation at the opposite end of the machine to that at which the machine is taken. Fig. #1 is a vertical transverse section in the plane of the line B B of Fig. 1; and Fig. is a partial view, in side elevation, showing the top roller of uniform diameter throughout its length.

The foundation on which the machine is supported is denoted by 1. It is provided with an opening for the reception of a tank 2, in which the fluid is held. (Vithin the tank 2 there are mounted a group of three rolls, (denoted by 3 4 5,) two of the rollers viz 3 and o being journaled in substantially the same horizontal plane near the base of the tank and the third, 4:, being journaled intermediate of and above the two rollers 3 and 5.

For the purpose of positively driving the rollers 3, 4:, and 5 I provide their respective shanks with sprocket-wheels, (denoted by 6 7 8,) which SPIOCkQt-WllQBlS are engaged by a drive-chain 9, which extends into a subdivision 10 of the tank 2, where the sprocketwheels are located on the roller-shafts, the

roller-shafts themselves being journaled on a partition 11 intermediate of the several sprocket-wheels and the ends of the rollers.

From the foundation 1 end frames 12 and 13 uprise, the said end frames being connected by longitudinal bars 14: 15, held in position by transverse rods or bolts 16 17, which serve to hold the end frames rigidly in position, the said bars 14 also serving as supports for a series of intermediate spacing-bars 18 for holding the rope of warp or fabric at proper intervals apart throughout the lengths of the rolls which carry it.

At the top of the frames 12 13 feed-rollers 19 20 are journaled, one of them, 19, being connected with the rollers in the tank by the chain 9, which passes over the sprocket-wheel 21 on the shaft of said roller, and the two rollers 19 20 being positively driven by means of the driving-pinion 22 on a shaft driven from a source of power (not shown) and intermeshing with wheels 23 2A, secured on the shafts of the rollers 19an'd 20. A roller 25, larger than the rollers 19 and 20 and resting normally on the faces of said rollers 19 20, is journaled in vertically-sliding bearings 26 27 in standards 28 29, uprising from the frames 19. 13.

Rollers 3O 31 are mounted in brackets 32 33, bolted to the sides of the frames 12 13, the roller 31 being mounted in bearings 34: 35, having a vertically-sliding engagement with the brackets 32 33 and subject to a yielding pressure through springs 36 37, acted upon by screws 38 39, operated by hand-wheels A0 A1.

The rollers 30 31 are located opposite that end of the roller where the rope of yarn or fabric leaves the rinsing apparatus and are utilized to pass it away from the apparatus to be further handled. The degree of gripping pressure upon the rope between rollers 31 is, as said above, determined by the screws 38 39, and one of these rollers, 30, is positively driven by means of a sprocket-chain 42, leading from a sprocket-wheel 43 on the shaft of the roller 19 to a sprocket 44 on the shaft of the roller 30.

The large roller 25 preferably has its surface subdivided into annular portions of greater or lesser radii in order to press upon the rope at certain parts of its travel during the rinsing operation and at other parts leaving it loose, thus alternately squeezing and permitting it to expand.

In the present instance the roller 25 is shown in Fig. 1 as provided with three annular portions 45 46 47 of greater radii to produce pressure and squeeze the rope and two portions 48 and 49 of lesser radius to permit it to expand.

The rope of yarn or fabric (denoted by 50) is led in at one end of the larger roller 25, passing between it and the roller 20, thence between the said roller 25 and the roller 19, thence down beneath the roller 3, thence up and over the roller, thence down beneath the roller 5, thence up and over the roller 20, between it and the roller 25, thence between the roller 19 and the roller 25, thence down again beneath the roller 3, passing through a space separated from that down which the rope previously passed by one of the separating-bars 18, and so on until. it reaches the opposite end of the roller 25, where it passes out between the discharging-rollers 3O 31. As it passes beneath, the portions 45, 46, and 47 of the roller 25 it is squeezed, while as it passes beneath the portions 48 and 49 of said roller it is allowed to expand, thus being alternately pressed and permitted to expand, and so becoming thoroughly rinsed. p

By passing the rope up and over a middle roller in the rinsing-tank that portion of the rope which was outside in passing around the roller 3 becomes inside on the roller 4, and thus the outer and inner parts of the rope be come at intervals returned to their normal relations without undue stretching of the one portion with respect to the other throughout the entire operation.

When the form of top roller indicated by 51, Fig. 5, is employed, the alternate squeezing and expanding of the rope 50 as it passes beneath different portions of it is changed to a continuous squeezing effect throughout the length of the roller.

What I claim is 1. A rinsing apparatus comprising a tank, rolls located in the tank, rolls located above the tank, a roll resting normally in engagement with the said rolls above the tank and means for operating the rolls, the said roll resting in contact with the rolls above the tank being provided with annular portions of greater or lesser radii to alternately squeeze and permit to expand a rope of yarn or fabric passing therethrough under manipulation.

2. Rinsing apparatus comprising a tank, a

guide-roll located in the tank, rolls locatedshafts projecting through a partition-wall in the tank and provided with gear-rolls located above the tank, driving-gear for operating said rolls, a sprocket-chain communicating motion of the rolls above the tank to those in the tank, a gravity-roll resting normally in engagement with the surfaces of the rolls above the tank and discharge-rolls for directing a rope of yarn or fabric away from the rolls above the tank.

4. Rinsing apparatus comprising a tank, guide-rolls in the tank, rolls located above the tank, means for operating the rolls, a gravity-roll resting normally in engagement with the rolls above the tank and provided with annular portions having different radii, discharge-rolls located opposite an annular portion of greater radius nearone end of the gravity-roll and means for positively operating the discharge-rolls.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 24th day of No- 9 vember, 1903.

ISAAC E. PALMER.

Witnesses:

FREDK. HAYNES, O. S. SUNDGREN. 

